Chapter 295: Debt Collectors Are Not This Persistent
Zhou Yuande opened his mouth to call the imperial physician, but Feng Jing quickly took out a small porcelain bottle from his purse, poured out a pill of antidote and stuffed it into Xiao Jingfan's mouth.
Xiao Jingfan swallowed the antidote before calmly saying, "Medicine for the emperor must first be registered with the Imperial Hospital."
Feng Jing frowned awkwardly: "But you were already poisoned by then."
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
Everyone: “…”
So why would you smear such a cruel poison on your body?
Can a miracle doctor do whatever he wants?
[Tsk tsk, Brother Feng is probably the first person to poison a tyrant and not be executed by him.]
Chu Liuzheng crossed out Shen Zhiyi's name from the small notebook of enemies, feeling very happy.
[I feel so relieved without any grudges——]
"Well!"
The sharp hairpin shone with a cold light as it passed across the snow-white neck, leaving a red line of blood.
Chu Liuzheng staggered to a stop, raised his hand to cover his neck, blood dripped down through his fingers, and bloomed into gorgeous flowers on his green clothes.
Shen Zhiyi clutched a pomegranate hairpin and collapsed at her feet, his eyes wide open, blood oozing from the corners of his lips, and three plum blossom darts stuck in his back, their sharp edges faintly bluish.
The hall was silent, and everyone stared in shock.
No one expected that Shen Zhiyi would suddenly attack Chu Liuzheng. If Hehua had not reached out and pulled Chu Liuzheng in time, the pomegranate hairpin would have been inserted into Chu Liuzheng's neck.
Xiao Shiyi flashed out, pulled out three plum blossom darts, put them away and smeared some poison on them so that they could be used next time.
"Drag him away." Xiao Jingfan ordered in a deep voice, striding over and pulling the stunned Chu Liuzheng in front of Feng Jing. "Stop the bleeding and bandage it."
His movement seemed to wake up the others in the hall and they quickly took action.
Xie Jieyu patted her chest in fear. Fortunately, Shen Zhiyi was not coming for her, otherwise she would have been hurt.
Zhou Yuande ordered people to carry Shen Zhiyi's body away.
Feng Jing pressed Chu Liuzheng onto the chair, took her hand away, and bent down to quickly treat the wound.
"Hiss—" Chu Liuzheng gasped in pain, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Be gentle." Xiao Jingfan frowned and glared at Feng Jing.
Feng Jing: “…”
It will naturally hurt if you apply medicine to a wound, otherwise why don’t you do it yourself?
It is impossible to come by yourself.
Xiao Jingfan stared at the wound on the snow-white neck that was gradually covered by medicine powder. His eyes were dark, and his hands behind his back loosened and tightened, tightened and clenched, trembling slightly.
Chu Liuzheng tilted his neck slightly to make it easier for Feng Jing to apply the medicine.
She didn't know what medicine Feng Jing gave her, but the pain was so severe that she could only think of all kinds of random things to distract herself.
I didn't expect the boss to actually care about his employees. After all, I got injured while working for him, so it should be considered a work-related injury, right?
Will the boss give me something? I really don't want powder, rouge, or makeup anymore. I don't want silk or satin either; ornaments take up space and aren't practical. Some gold or silver would be the most practical thing. Jewelry would be fine, too. I'm not picky.
Xiao Jingfan was speechless. It was already this time and he was still only thinking about money?
Xie Jieyu came over and said in a delicate voice: "Your Majesty, your concubine——"
"Zhou Yuande, send Concubine Xie back." Xiao Jingfan didn't even turn his head.
Xie Jieyu: "..."
Zhou Yuande stepped forward with a smile: "Your Majesty, please come in."
"I'll take my leave." Concubine Xie pouted, bowed, and left angrily.
She must complain to the Queen Mother!
In Changchun Palace, Gao Yongfu walked quickly into the study and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, I just received news that Concubine Shen has passed away."
Queen Zhong was startled. She put down the chess manual and asked, "Wasn't she already well? Why did she die so suddenly?"
Gao Yongfu waved his hand to let the servants in the room leave, and whispered: "Concubine Chen's poisoning of Concubine Shu and Princess Huirong was exposed, and she deceived the emperor. His Majesty has given her poisoned wine, and the others who knew about it have been killed."
"Your Majesty is quite angry this time." Empress Zhong slowly picked up the jade chess piece. "Concubine Chen has done many things in secret, and this time she has brought this upon herself. If Your Majesty has no other instructions, we will conduct the funeral according to the rules."
"Yes." Gao Yongfu picked up the teacup and handed it to her, "I also heard something."
Queen Zhong put all the jade chess pieces back into the chess box, reached out to take the teacup, and raised her eyelids to look at him.
Gao Yongfu said: "It is said that Concubine Shen did not die from poisoned wine, but was killed by the secret guards."
Empress Zhong paused as she lifted the lid of her teacup, her brows furrowed as she asked, "Why would the secret guards do this?"
"I only heard it, and the news is not reliable," Gao Yongfu whispered. "It is said that Concubine Chen suddenly attacked Chu Liuzheng and scratched his neck with a hairpin, which attracted the secret guards to shoot her with a dart."
"It's her again." Queen Zhong frowned and raised her voice slightly.
Gao Yongfu said, "It is said that she found out that Concubine Shen was the one who poisoned her. It is understandable that she attacked her in a fit of rage when Concubine Shen was about to die."
Queen Zhong's eyes flickered slightly. She slowly drank a sip of tea and asked, "How is she injured?"
"It's just a flesh wound," Gao Yongfu said. "With the imperial physician and Doctor Feng here, there wasn't much blood lost."
Queen Zhong raised the corner of her lips and smiled: "Good luck."
Gao Yongfu waited for a while, and seeing that she didn't seem to have any other instructions, he was about to leave when he heard Empress Zhong suddenly say, "How are the princess and the concubine?"
"Doctor Feng said he can develop an antidote within ten days," Gao Yongfu said. "With Doctor Qin's acupuncture to suppress the toxicity, after the poison is detoxified and proper recuperation is done, everything will be fine."
"I'm glad you're alright. Pick some supplements from the storeroom and send them over." Empress Zhong put down her teacup and looked up at him. "Go and ask Consort Chun to come and have dinner with me."
"Yes." Gao Yongfu took the order and left.
Queen Zhong picked up the chess record again, but suddenly lost interest in playing chess.
She had the chess table taken away, leaned sideways on the cushion, gently stroked her bulging belly with her hand, and stared at the new buds on the branches outside the window, but her eyes were scattered, and she didn't know where her mind was wandering.
On the other side, the injured Chu Liuzheng took sick leave again.
Xia Qiaoru carefully applied medicine to her neck, blowing gently on it while worrying, "It's such a long wound, and it's in the wrong place. What if it leaves a scar?"
"No." Chu Liuzheng tilted his neck. "Doctor Feng said that as long as he's here and I apply the medicine on time, even if I get a few more cuts, there won't be any scars."
Xia Qiaoru was speechless. Is this what the doctor said?
"Every time you get hurt, I get worried." She took out the gauze and wrapped it around Chu Liuzheng's neck. "It was okay the last few times. The situation was stronger than the person. But this time, you knew you had offended someone so badly and didn't take precautions. If it weren't for Hehua holding you back, I wouldn't have dared to think about it."
[Isn't this just a momentary oversight due to being overjoyed at having defeated my enemy? I never imagined that seemingly gentle and peaceful man-eating plant would be so mad, dragging someone else down with it after its death.]
"I really know I was wrong. I promise to stay away from those people with bad intentions from now on, okay?" Chu Liuzheng felt like his ears were about to get calluses from being scolded so much.
Xia Qiaoru pinched her cheek and said, "It's not enough to just know it, you have to remember to do it. If you really dare to do something bad, I will kill the person who hurt you and then commit suicide. I will also blame you in the underworld."
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
Even debt collectors are not as persistent as you.
She pulled her hands away from her face and curled her lips: "Come on, with your brother Zhijie here, are you willing to die like this?"
"I'm willing to give it up." Xia Qiaoru's eyes were firm and her tone was sonorous, as if she would run and bang her head against the wall at the next moment.
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